Orientador: Sílvio de Sant'Ana Junior / Banca: Marco Antonio Domingues Sant'Ana / Banca: Astrogilda Rosa Beneli / Banca: Eunice Lopes de Souza Toledo / Banca: Elza Sabino da Silva Bueno / Resumo: Neste trabalho fazemos uma análise semiótica de uma narrativa bíblica, registrada no livro de Gênesis, capítulo 22. Trata-se da história da prova de Abraão, em que Deus lhe pede que siga até um monte na terra de Moriá e ali ofereça seu filho Isaque em holocausto. É uma narrativa bastante polêmica, pois parece colocar em contradição a natureza do próprio Deus. Para a análise, seguimos a teoria proposta por Greimas em sua ciência da significação, que procura traçar o percurso gerativo do sentido a fim de decifrar o código do texto e entender seu significado profundo. Baseamos nosso estudo também nas análises semióticas de narrativas bíblicas do GROUPE D'ENTREVERNES. A análise se divide em duas partes principais: a descrição das estruturas de superfície, com suas componentes narrativa e discursiva; e a descrição das estruturas profundas, cujo ápice é a articulação dos quadrados semióticos. No estudo da componente narrativa da estrutura de superfície, construímos o modelo narrativo, por meio da elaboração dos programas narrativos. Temos, então, que Abraão é um sujeito que busca demonstrar a sua obediência a Deus, o destinador-manipulador, oferecendo seu filho Isaque em holocausto. A partir daí, desenvolvemos o esquema narrativo, apoiado nas operações de manipulação, competência, performance e sanção; o estudo dos actantes; e a sintaxe modal. A componente discursiva da estrutura de superfície está fundamentada no estudo dos atores, do tempo e do espaço; nos percursos figurativos, que no texto em questão são: o deslocamento, o holocausto e a família; e na análise da veridicção. Os programas narrativos e percursos figurativos permitem reconhecer as isotopias da narrativa que levam à articulação do quadrado semiótico da estrutura profunda. No caso da narrativa da prova de Abraão... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This study analyses by using the semiotic theory a biblical narrative of Genesis, chapter 22. That is the story of the Abraham's proof, in which God asks him to take his son Isaac get into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering. It is a very polemic narrative because it seems to contradict God's nature. For the analysis we follow the theory purposed by Greimas in his science of signification that aims the generative process of meaning in order to find the text's code and understand its deep structure. We also follow the semiotic analysis of biblical narratives made by the GROUPE D'ENTREVERNES. The analysis has two main parts: the description of the surface structures and their narrative and discursive components, and the description of the deep structures, which aims the semiotic squares articulation. In the study of the narrative component we built the narrative model by the narrative programs organization. We found that Abraham is subject that quests to demonstrate his obedience to God, the addresser-manipulator, by giving his son Isaac as a burnt offering. Then, we developed the narrative scheme, based on the operations of manipulation, competence, performance and sanction; the study of actants; and the modal syntax. The discursive component is based on the study of the actors, the time and the space; the figurative processes that in this text are: the moving, the holocaust and the family; and the analysis of the veridictory modalities. The narrative programs and the figurative processes allowed us to find the isotopies of the text that carry to the deep structures by the semiotic squares articulation. In the Abraham's proof narrative we conclude that... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below) / Doutor

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004-12-16Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:42:49Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ramos_kahp_dr_assis.pdf: 310203 bytes, checksum: 1221322423c9e226025dbfdd38f379c0 (MD5) / Neste trabalho fazemos uma análise semiótica de uma narrativa bíblica, registrada no livro de Gênesis, capítulo 22. Trata-se da história da prova de Abraão, em que Deus lhe pede que siga até um monte na terra de Moriá e ali ofereça seu filho Isaque em holocausto. É uma narrativa bastante polêmica, pois parece colocar em contradição a natureza do próprio Deus. Para a análise, seguimos a teoria proposta por Greimas em sua ciência da significação, que procura traçar o percurso gerativo do sentido a fim de decifrar o código do texto e entender seu significado profundo. Baseamos nosso estudo também nas análises semióticas de narrativas bíblicas do GROUPE D'ENTREVERNES. A análise se divide em duas partes principais: a descrição das estruturas de superfície, com suas componentes narrativa e discursiva; e a descrição das estruturas profundas, cujo ápice é a articulação dos quadrados semióticos. No estudo da componente narrativa da estrutura de superfície, construímos o modelo narrativo, por meio da elaboração dos programas narrativos. Temos, então, que Abraão é um sujeito que busca demonstrar a sua obediência a Deus, o destinador-manipulador, oferecendo seu filho Isaque em holocausto. A partir daí, desenvolvemos o esquema narrativo, apoiado nas operações de manipulação, competência, performance e sanção; o estudo dos actantes; e a sintaxe modal. A componente discursiva da estrutura de superfície está fundamentada no estudo dos atores, do tempo e do espaço; nos percursos figurativos, que no texto em questão são: o deslocamento, o holocausto e a família; e na análise da veridicção. Os programas narrativos e percursos figurativos permitem reconhecer as isotopias da narrativa que levam à articulação do quadrado semiótico da estrutura profunda. No caso da narrativa da prova de Abraão... / This study analyses by using the semiotic theory a biblical narrative of Genesis, chapter 22. That is the story of the Abraham's proof, in which God asks him to take his son Isaac get into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering. It is a very polemic narrative because it seems to contradict God's nature. For the analysis we follow the theory purposed by Greimas in his science of signification that aims the generative process of meaning in order to find the text's code and understand its deep structure. We also follow the semiotic analysis of biblical narratives made by the GROUPE D'ENTREVERNES. The analysis has two main parts: the description of the surface structures and their narrative and discursive components, and the description of the deep structures, which aims the semiotic squares articulation. In the study of the narrative component we built the narrative model by the narrative programs organization. We found that Abraham is subject that quests to demonstrate his obedience to God, the addresser-manipulator, by giving his son Isaac as a burnt offering. Then, we developed the narrative scheme, based on the operations of manipulation, competence, performance and sanction; the study of actants; and the modal syntax. The discursive component is based on the study of the actors, the time and the space; the figurative processes that in this text are: the moving, the holocaust and the family; and the analysis of the veridictory modalities. The narrative programs and the figurative processes allowed us to find the isotopies of the text that carry to the deep structures by the semiotic squares articulation. In the Abraham's proof narrative we conclude that... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

This thesis examines three genres of the oral heritage of the Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho, Kurdistan: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative, and the folktale. During the past three decades, there has been a renewed interest in research on Neo-Aramaic, and a substantial growth of research in the field has been seen. However, the contemporary study of Neo-Aramaic has been focused almost exclusively on linguistic description and analysis. Content-based aspects of the study of the language and its cultures have received very little attention. This thesis is a first step towards filling this gap. The introduction to the thesis provides background information about the Jewish community of Zakho and about the Neo-Aramaic subgroup to which the Jewish Zakho dialect belongs, North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA). It then gives a brief review of relevant aspects of the study of folklore, before providing a description of the database of audio recordings upon which this thesis is based. The first chapter presents several approaches to the study of the proverb (paremiology). It is argued that an important component for the understanding and analysis of proverbs, one that is often overlooked, is the context of each proverb. The second chapter analyses an example of the genre of enriched biblical narrative through the lens of a concept taken from the field of thematology: the motifeme - a small meaning-bearing contextual-structural unit of the narrative. It demonstrates the non-linear historical development of the sequence of motifemes in the narrative analysed here, a feature which is particularly typical of Jewish narratives. The folktale is a genre central to the formation and maintenance of the Jewish Zakho communal identity, and the third chapter contains a detailed analysis of one particular folktale. The folktale chosen for analysis in this chapter features a cross-culturally uncommon motif: the motif of magical gender transformation. The NENA materials contained in this thesis are transcribed and translated into English. They are drawn from a database of recordings of members of the Zakho community living now mainly in Jerusalem, and were collected in the course of fieldwork undertaken by the author.

Ce travail tente d’examiner, à la lumière de l'analyse littéraire, les récits narratifs présents dans le Coran et de suivre les transformations que ces récits ont subi en passant de la tradition biblique à la tradition islamique. Il tente aussi de chercher la raison d’être de ces récits dans une expression non pas historique mais bien métaphorique. Dans cette optique, il est difficile d'articuler ensemble révélation divine et expérience humaine voilà pourquoi nous avons d’abord étudié le rapport entre Histoire et expression littéraire dans les récits Coraniques. Nous aborderons tour à tour la question de la Révélation du point de vue de la prophétie, le passage fragmentaire de la Parole à l’écrit et la naissance du texte avant de passer à l’analyse strictement littéraire et le fonctionnement des récits dans l’ensemble scripturaire. Nous nous appuierons sur le récit particulier d’Abraham pour conforter notre idée d’une lecture constellaire des récits dans le Coran. / This work attempts to examine, in the light of literary analysis, the narratives present in the Quran and to follow the transformations that these stories have undergone in passing from the biblical tradition to the Islamic tradition. It also tries to seek the nature of these stories as an expression that is not historical but rather metaphorical. In this perspective, it is difficult to articulate divine Revelation and human experience together, which is why we first studied the relationship between History and literary expression in Quranic stories. We will address in turn the question of Revelation from the point of view of prophecy, the fragmentary passage from God’s Word to human writing and the birth of the text before moving on to a strictly literary analysis and the functioning of stories throughout the scripture as a whole. We will rely on the particular story of Abraham to reinforce our idea of a constellational reading of the stories in the Quran.

In contradistinction to critical trends which have rendered Milton’s thought disembodied, this thesis studies how seventeenth-century material culture informed Milton’s poetry and prose at the epistemic level and by suggesting a palette of forms for literary play. The first chapter explores the early modern culture of fruit. At the epistemic level, practices of fruit cultivation and consumption inform Milton’s imagination and his vocabulary, thereby connecting their historic-material lives with their symbolic ones. Milton further turns commonplace gestures of fruit consumption into narrative devices that frame discussions of agency, aspiration, sinful and right practice. The second chapter examines two floral catalogues to discover how they find shape through the epistemologies of flowers, ceremony, and decorative arts. Here material culture shapes literary convention, as one catalogue is found to secret ceremonial consolation in its natural ingenuousness, while the other’s delight in human physicality upsets the distinctions between inner virtue and outer ornament, faith and rite. In the third chapter, urban epistemologies of light, darkness, movement, and space are examined through urban phenomena: skyline, suburbs, highways, theft, and waterways. By interpellating contemporary debates, these categories anatomise fallen character, intent, action, and their consequences. Milton’s instinctive distaste for urban nuisances is interesting in this Republican figure and is subversive of some ideologies of the text. Discursive and material aspects meet again in the fourth chapter in a discussion of his graphic presentations of geography on the page. Usually prone to analyses of textual knowledge, they are also informed by the embodiment of knowledge as material object. Milton’s search for a fitting cartographic aesthetic for the Biblical narrative and for the rhetoric of his characters leads him to an increasing consciousness of the ideologies energising these material forms. The fifth chapter explores Milton’s engagement with forms of armour and weapons. Military preferences for speed and mobility over armour help Milton explore the difference between unfallen and fallen being. Milton also uses his inescapably proleptic knowledge of arms and armour as a field of imaginative play for representations that are both anachronistic and typological. These lead to a discussion of imitation in the mythic imagination. In each of these studies, we witness Milton’s consciousness of his temporal and proleptic location, and his attempts to marry the temporal and the pan- or atemporal. In the conclusion I suggest that Milton’s simultaneous courting of the atemporal while he is drawn to or draws on temporal material culture imply an incarnational aesthetic.

The availability of water and subsequent systems that developed around it played an important role throughout biblical lands and their surroundings. Water’s contribution spanned across all facets of life, times of peace and war, affecting the elite and the poor. The research focuses on the different aspects of water, both in its natural and anthropogenic distribution. The combination of archaeology, anthropology, and geography explores the following questions: What can be learnt from contemporary civilisations? What social implications did water systems have on ancient Palestine’s society? Did the extent of the impact lessen once water was secured? The multidisciplinary approach aids in understanding the effect of water availability the social structures required for the creation, use, and maintenance of the different water systems. Water was, at first, a basic need for survival in rural areas, turning into a magnificent show of power of the ruling elite of ancient Palestine. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / M.A. (Biblical Archaeology)